DOG ASIDE: During the mid-1980’s in the sport of track and field…..there were two US broad jumbers who were world record holders….and they happened to be brother and sister….Carl & Carol Lewis. Don’t you know that their parents were mighty proud of their two siblings?! I this NCAA Indoor Championship of 1985…..Carol Lewis was the…
DOG ASIDE: Greg Page (October 25, 1958 – April 27, 2009) was a boxer from Louisville, Kentucky. He was the WBA Heavyweight Champion from December 1984 to April 1985, losing the title in his first defense. His professional record was 58-17-1 with 48 knockouts….while defeating Gerrie Coetzee, Jimmy Young, James “Quick” Tillis, Renaldo Snipes,Alfredo Evangelista, Scott…
DOG ASIDE: During the golden age of heavyweight boxers from the mid-1960’s to the mid-1980’s….there was a heavyweight who never held the title….but is considered the hardest puncher of all time….was best known as Earnie Shavers….an American former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is considered by most boxing experts to be the…
DOG ASIDE: Truly one of the all time great sportscaster/broadcaster/analyst was Curt Gowdy….as he was at the helm of televised sports when sportscasters covered all types of sports….they didn’t specialize like John Madden in football, Dick Vitale in basketball, et al….for he was of the same mold as Jim McKay, Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, et…
DOG ASIDE: After the golden years of Heavyweight Boxing passed…..somewhere around the mid-to-late 1980’s….there were more than just a few pretenders to the crown of Heavyweight Champion….with some of those actually winning a WBC, WBA or IBC title…..and two of those heavyweights were James Broad and Tim Witherspoon….as both got multiple title shots….with Witherspoon winning…
DOG ASIDE: The headlines of boxing had been pretty much dominated by the Heavyweight Division by the likes of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, George Foreman and Mike Tyson for several decades when Greg Page and Trevor Berbick came along….albeit Page did win the IBC Heavyweight Title. Although neither were on the…
DOG ASIDE: One of the truly great women swimmers of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics…..was 100m Butterfly gold medalist Mary T. Meagher…..better known as “Madame Butterfly”…..who was accompanied by teammate Jenna Tompson (2nd) on the medal stand Los Angeles….as Madame Butterfly was just shedding her cocoon as a 19 yr. old freshman at California University…
DOG ASIDE: From this sportsphile’s perspective….in the universe of the hoopla in boxing,,,,which has been there since 1964….when The Greatest, Muhammad Ali….brought television to the sport of boxing…and the hoopla has only grown since that day…..anyway, in the hoopla of those who are extremely marketable television boxers….the great British boxers have been overlooked…..after all, this…
DOG ASIDE: This video takes a look at Sports Illustrated Magazine’s Athlete of the Year winners for the 1st 25 years of their publication….since August 16, 1954….as hosted by James Caan….covering winners such as MLB Hank Aaron, Golfer Jack Nicklaus, Jockey Stevie Cauthern, Tennis Bjorn Borg, NCAA Football Coach Bud Wilkerson, NHL’s Montreal Canadiens et…